Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Saturday, August 6, 2011

"To see ourselves as others see us..." Part Two: The ice cream chronicles

By Steve Hynd


The Washington Post, always willing to bang the "perfidious Persians" drum, has this piece today:



Iran�s rich eat ice cream covered in gold as poor struggle to survive


By Thomas Erdbrink, Friday, August 5, 2:02 PM


TEHRAN � Gold-flecked ice cream wasn�t part of the picture that Shiite Muslim clerics painted during the Iranian Revolution, when they promised to lift the poor by distributing the country�s vast oil income equally across society.


But more than three decades later, record oil profits have brought in billions, and some people here are enjoying that decadent dessert. The trouble is, it�s just a small group of wealthy Iranians. Despite the promises of the revolution, many here say the gap between rich and poor has never seemed bigger�.



Over at the conservative blog Outside The Beltway, Doug Mataconis observes "These are the kinds of disparities that caused revolution in countries like Egypt."


Umm, yeah:



The Frozen Haute Chocolate, (right) made by New York City eatery, Serendipity 3 and priced at a mind-blowing $25,000 has claimed a spot in the Guiness World Records as The World�s Most Expensive Dessert.


Made from a blend of 28 cocoas from across the world, this decadent delicacy is infused with five grams of edible 23-karat gold and served in a goblet lined with edible gold. Serendipity 3 teamed up with jeweler Euphoria New York to create this amazing dessert.


Topped with whipped cream, more gold and a side of La Madeline au Truffle from Knipschildt Chocolatier, which sells for $2,600 a pound, the dessert comes with an 18K gold bracelet with a carat�s worth of diamonds that rests at the base of the goblet and a gold spoon set with white and chocolate-colored diamonds.



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I'm looking forward to Doug and other conservatives taking up their banners and marching on Tahir Times Square to demand a return to democracy and the ousting of the undemocratic, rich, oligarchic 1% who now claim 25% of the nation's income and 33% of the nation's wealth. Or at least call for those oligarchs' tax rates to be raised.


But I won't hold my breath, cyanotic blue isn't a good color for me.



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2 comments:

  1. John BallardAugust 6, 2011 at 10:39 AM

    Excellent! A perfect compliment to the other post.

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  2. hell is only half fullAugust 7, 2011 at 9:04 PM

    Can you say morons without laughing?

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